"Mad Max is purely Australian," said Mr Bennett, a man so passionate about the series he moved his family from the UK to Silverton, NSW, where the second Mel Gibson classic was filmed. "That's what makes it work."

The game - set in an expansive desert wasteland - is all about the carnage of driving deadly cars in high-speed combat.

Other than some vehicles having a steering wheel on the right there was virtually no Australian flavour and not even one distinctively drawling accent.